Stop Smoking and Nicotine

Nicotine is a highly addictive drug; you can get hooked with just one puff of a cigarette. Fortunately, the withdrawal effects are quite mild – the smoker gets a feeling that something is missing. The withdrawal effects take time to build up, and this is why there is usually a gap between cigarettes.

Most smokers have lived and died without ever knowing they were drug addicts

Of course, the withdrawal effects disappear as soon as the smoker lights up again, and this usually misleads them into thinking that the cigarette makes them feel better.

We have all heard smokers saying that they are gasping for a fag. The truth is that the relief they feel is relief from the withdrawal effects of the previous cigarette. In other words they would be feeling better if they had never smoked the previous cigarette (and they would be feeling even better than that if they had never even started in the first place).

Each cigarette confirms the feeling that the smoker is gaining some benefit, but the truth is that it makes them more dependent.

More seriously of course, each cigarette makes their body increasingly unhealthy.

Although nicotine is probably the most addictive drug in the world in frequent use, its effects are mild and relatively short-lived.

For the smoker, the withdrawal effects are probably at their worst first thing every morning. That's right! That is as bad as it needs to get! If your withdrawal effects are any worse than that, they are sure to be coming from your subconscious mind (to read more about withdrawal effects and the subconscious mind, read Smoking and the Mind).